FedNow UI Developer

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston, MA
07 Mar 2025

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

The Federal Reserve is developing a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow service. This service will help enable financial institutions provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that will be transformative to the payments landscape in the United States.

While open to location and remote work, residence near a Federal Reserve facility is preferred.

In this role, you will be part of a team focused on building a modern frontend built on TypeScript/React. You'll also be responsible for the development of a framework that allows many teams to contribute their own UI, using other JavaScript frameworks and libraries. Your passion for front end development and experience building large web-based frontend applications will allow you to help our team define our vision and establish technical best practices. This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience
  • 3-6 years frontend engineering experience in a team-based environment
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying software with cloud-first architectures
  • Experience with CI/CD build tools and DevOps processes
  • Experience building, and helping customers build, high volume, mission critical applications

  • Experience with Agile software engineering ( SAFe or Scrum)

Knowledge and Skills

  • Modern JavaScript development experience using current tools, frameworks, and development practices.
  • Strong fundamentals in frontend technology

  • React

  • CSS-in-JS
  • F rontend build and release tools like node, NPM/Yarn, and Webpack
  • Unit Test frameworks (Jest, Testing Library etc )
  • Familiar with Typescript

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

  • Familiarity with UX processes and prototyping tools
  • Attention to details.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience developing JS libraries and packages
  • Experience developing in a high secure environment

  • Experience developing large scale applications
  • Experience with design systems
  • Cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience working with Selenium

  • Experience with server-side development

The Federal Reserve System is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work required of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or skills associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.

For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.

The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers.

All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years

Full Time / Part Time Full time

Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category

Work Shift First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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  • ID: #49424191
  • State: Massachusetts Boston 02108 Boston USA
  • City: Boston
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-07
  • Deadline: 2023-05-05
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